What did Pope Francis mean when he said he wants “a poor church for the poor”? (And more!)

CatholicAnswersLogoIn this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Jimmy takes on the following questions:

  • What did Pope Francis mean when he said that he would like “a poor church for the poor”?
  • How can anybody be a saint if we are all sinful?
  • Can a priest say the ordinary form of the Mass facing East or facing the altar rather than the people?
  • Where did the idea that either the man born blind or his parents had sinned?
  • How to obtain an annulment?
  • What happened to the people who rose from the dead at the time of the Crucifixion?
  • What does it mean when the Apostles’ Creed says that Jesus descended into hell?
  • What does it mean when Hebrews says that Jesus learned obedience through suffering?
  • How to respond to “None is righteous, no not one”?
  • How to respond to the claim that humans are equal to all other species?
  • What does St. Paul mean in 1 Corinthians 8 when he talks about us using our knowledge to tear down our brethren rather than build them up?
  • Why is there a difference between documentary process and formal process annulments?

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

4 thoughts on “What did Pope Francis mean when he said he wants “a poor church for the poor”? (And more!)”

  1. In my opinion the Church cannot be poor until it sells the billions of dollars in diamond tiaras and such to museums and drill wells in Africa to save poor African children from dying of diseases caused by polluted water.

  2. In John 12, Jesus said ” “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. 8 You will always have the poor among you,[c] but you will not always have me.”
    This perfume was ordained specifically for this purpose, Jesus is no longer with us in the flesh therefor it seem that Jesus would want to use this money to be used to help his suffering poor and not Corban.

  3. “Billions of dollars in tiaras”?
    Is there some documentation for this assertion?
    “Jesus is no longer with us in the flesh”?
    Gee, that’s news to me! I sure thought He was and is.
    I’m a parish priest in Pennsylvania.
    I have seen a lot of human misery over the past 48 years since I was ordained to the priesthood.
    None of this misery was or is due to simple lack of money.
    Would that life were so simple!
    Human misery originates in sin.
    Redistribution of the wealth as solution to human misery is the perennial socialist pipe dream.

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